Trump earlier tweeted that fake news was "distorting democracy in our country," and called the ABC/Washington Post poll "about the most inaccurate poll around election time." He also defended his son Donald Trump Jr. amid another rough week of reporting about his meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer, news Trump called "slanted" and "fraudulent reporting."

That tweet came after Trump contrasted the reporting on his son's meeting with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "illegally" receiving debate questions and deleting 33,000 emails amid a probe into her use of a private email server.

With all of its phony unnamed sources & highly slanted & even fraudulent reporting, #Fake News is DISTORTING DEMOCRACY in our country!